The Master of Magnetism’s other mutation? Getting the X-Men to trust him again and again!
With X-Men: Blue the original Xavier students from the past reunited with Magneto as their new mentor.
Can he be trusted? (Non-Spoiler: Not)
Jean Grey’s X-Men get a surprise when a classic enemy appears, Beast is hiding a dark secret and Magneto reveals his hidden agenda.
Magneto kept secrets from Psylocke – and paid a deadly price – in the last Uncanny X-Men volume by Cullen Bunn.
The acclaimed writer is now heading up X-Men: Blue. Magneto’s secret is even bigger…with bigger repercussions if he succeeds.
Before we break down Magneto’s secret mission here’s a SPOILER ALERT!
If you have not read X-Men: Blue #1, #2 yet stop reading now and BAMF to your local comic book shop.
Seriously.
OK.
Here it comes.
It’s a thrill to see Jean Grey saying, “To Me, My X-Men” as team leader but will she regret aligning the originals with the villain they first fought way back…even though it seems like almost yesterday to them?
In a flashback we see how Jean and Magneto agreed to the new partnership in this week’s chapter by Bunn and artist Jorge Molina.
In the first issue the X-Men took on Black Tom Cassidy and Juggernaut and reported back to their new mentor as their new headquarters: Madripoor.
Teasers showed that the squad is targeting rogue mutants who are a threat to Xavier’s dream including Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw but good guys like Magik and members of the X-Men Gold team?
Will Magneto send his team after Psylocke after she “killed” him?
Back to this week’s revealing second issue, the X-Men confront Sentinels who don’t say “exterminate” but instead, “greetings, fellow mutants.”
Are these mutated Sentinels and who did the manipulation? You may remember in IvX, Emma Frost had a fleet of Inhuman hunting Sentinels.
Back in Madripoor, Magneto (along with his robot Ferris – another classic comeback) descend into a secret chamber where the Time Platform is being repaired. The device adult Hank McCoy used to bring the original X-Men into the present. Is Magneto trying to send the originals back? Why?
The action continues in X-Men: Blue #3 and Jean Grey #1 by Dennis Hopeless arrives next week.
By Editor